PrimeFlight To Lay Off More Than 300 At Texas Airports After Getting Busted For Labor Violations

Bad: when your employer forces you to lie about your tip income in order to pay you less than minimum wage. Worse: when your employer gets caught, they then lay you off as if its your fucking fault. Here is AviationPros.com with the details:

PrimeFlight Aviation Services, a national ground handler accused of wage standards violations last year, will lay off about 64 people at San Antonio International Airport after losing a contract with Delta Air Lines.

The Nashville, Tenn.-based company told the Texas Workforce Commission that the employees would lose their jobs on April 30, the day PrimeFlight's ramp contract with Delta ends.

PrimeFlight officials could not be reached for comment. The company provides a variety of services at San Antonio International, including curbside baggage handling and ground handling services for aircraft.

Airport spokesman Rich Johnson said PrimeFlight had contracts with both Delta and Aeromexico. How many PrimeFlight employees would remain after the layoffs was unclear.

The company also expects to lay off 276 employees at Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston after United Airlines replaced it with another contractor there. Those layoffs are scheduled for May 15.

PrimeFlight drew headlines last year when employees in both Houston and San Antonio said they were pressured by management to report more tip income than they actually made so PrimeFlight would not have to kick in money to meet minimum wage guidelines.

It gives me a warm, safe feeling all over to know that people employed in the airline industry are being treated fantastically by their employers.


Bonus: I'd like to dedicate this song to PrimeFlight...

Death is in the air there's trouble all around
Now you got it coming This time you're going down
Deeds not words you should've told the truth
You're a liar and traitor and now we got the proof